Just googling tells me I could save battery life by switching off LTE when I don't need it and use 3G.
But just curious from those who actually do this and have experienced it. Is there a big increase in battery life or do articles I find from Google exaggerate? Just curious cause I realized I hardly ever need LTE and wondering what kind of increase I should expect.
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I am quite new to the technical aspects of mobile devices. We have both 3g/4g here in my city. I currently have the evo 4g. My speeds range on 3g from .20mbps to 1.30mbps and on 4g 2.4mbps to 12mbps. My question is when I get the evo 3d due to the newer hardware will my speeds increase or at least be more stable? If I had to answer my own question I'd say its a network issue and my speeds and stabilization will be same but I figured would not hurt to throw this question to you guys which I know are tons more knowledgable in this area.
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I am quite new to the technical aspects of mobile devices. We have both 3g/4g here in my city. I currently have the evo 4g. My speeds range on 3g from .20mbps to 1.30mbps and on 4g 2.4mbps to 12mbps. My question is when I get the evo 3d due to the newer hardware will my speeds increase or at least be more stable? If I had to answer my own question I'd say its a network issue and my speeds and stabilization will be same but I figured would not hurt to throw this question to you guys which I know are tons more knowledgable in this area.
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Should slightly.
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So I have 2gb of data and used it all up. If I understand correctly it will still say 4g but throttled down to 2g. If I go to my settings wireless and mobile networks and change to use gsm only it will actually switch to 2g in the notification bar. My question is by only using gsm instead of wcdma will I have a longer lasting battery? Doesn't wcdma require more power consumption? And last, I've also noticed that if I have wcdma 4g throttle down with 2-3 bars vs gsm 2g full bars I get slightly better speed results. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Floyd P.
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For sure it will have better battery life, edge connectivity uses less battery life, in addition, it won't have to ever switch back and forth.
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I thought so... I also noticed speeds are faster on edge when I have full bars which is 80% of the time. Thanks
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nidayede said:
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Has nothing to do with the Amaze 4G.
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A ton of battery use goes to your device searching for the best/strongest signal...eliminate the need for it to search, and you will definitely save power.
Thanks for the info guys
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Sorry if this was ask before...
So i heard if you put your phone on cdma only it will save some battery because is not looking for both signals "dual mode" I believe. Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone don't have to look for 3G signal and maybe save some juice?
Thanks in Advance
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Only if you want battery drain. Imho there isn't a phone on the market that comes stock aside from the Maxx that is viable to run LTE only for any extended period of time. The hardware technology hasn't matured enough to keep up with the resource drain LTE uses. I rarely ever have it turned on myself.
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Kratz17 said:
Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone...
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If there were, it would no longer be a phone. Currently, on Verizon, LTE is data only. All calls go over the CDMA side.
Kratz17 said:
Sorry if this was ask before...
So i heard if you put your phone on cdma only it will save some battery because is not looking for both signals "dual mode" I believe. Is there a way to put LTE only so my phone don't have to look for 3G signal and maybe save some juice?
Thanks in Advance
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If you did that, you wouldn't get any phone service either
I swear there was a setting for LTE only. I believe I came across it once while messing around with some settings trying to get 4G back, before I found out it was a outage lol... It bumped me off of 3G and put me on 1X.
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There is a setting that is CDMA+LTE only. So you get calls and texts over 1X and have 4G, but if your 4G drops you go to 1X. However, that is how the phone works even with 3G turned on so there are no battery savings.
Geoi1006 said:
Only if you want battery drain. Imho there isn't a phone on the market that comes stock aside from the Maxx that is viable to run LTE only for any extended period of time. The hardware technology hasn't matured enough to keep up with the resource drain LTE uses. I rarely ever have it turned on myself.
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if you set it for 3g only does that save on battery and how do you do that exactly?
You can actually do it two ways under settings go to power-power mode- and choose normal performace(instead of high) OR under settings- wireless & networks- mobile network settings- network mode and choose cdma only!
Hope that helped!
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Thanks for all the feedbacks guys really appreciate
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So, for all of those lucky enough to receive the new EVO, what is your 3G speed. Post your speedtest screenshots and let us know what city you are in.
For the record, I didn't get one. :'(
iwalkthrowwalls said:
So, for all of those lucky enough to receive the new EVO, what is your 3G speed. Post your speedtest screenshots and let us know what city you are in.
For the record, I didn't get one. :'(
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Some tests I ran between my 3D and LTE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26511061&postcount=2
I'd really like to see a comparison of WiMax speeds versus the 3G speeds of the LTEVO. I'm sure WiMax will still be faster, but I'm curious to see by how much.
Since I'm keeping my OG activated (for WiMax) until LTE is active in my area, it would be nice if the numbers were close enough for me to avoid having to carry around two phones for several months .
I'll post a speed test shortly
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Some tests I ran between my 3D and LTE: Link to Post
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Wow. That's ridiculous. I've read it is faster on 3G than other phones (namely the 3D), but I wonder if most zones will see that much improvement. Seems hard to believe.
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I'd really like to see a comparison of WiMax speeds versus the 3G speeds of the LTEVO. I'm sure WiMax will still be faster, but I'm curious to see by how much.
Since I'm keeping my OG activated (for WiMax) until LTE is active in my area, it would be nice if the numbers were close enough for me to avoid having to carry around two phones for several months .
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3G for me on the LTE is between 500-700kbps while the unofficial 4G (not on Sprints map but shows on Clear's and connects as Sprint). I just ran my 3D on WiMax to Speedtest it. In my house with 1 bar of 4G and I got 5490kbps down. So you will probably want to carry 2 phones for a bit
I've done three speedtests and average 280 kbps down and 350 up here in Minneapolis with 1-3 bars in my apartment building.
Edit: though I did just get this...
My OG EVO, EVO 3D, and Epic 4G Touch have all had atrocious 3G speeds. Way below other carriers. This phone appears to have great 3G speeds (relatively), and my girlfriend's Sprint iPhone 4S also gets pretty good 3G speeds. I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint purposely throttles data from certain devices and allocates more data to others. Makes sense that they would want iPhone uses to have decent data, they don't have a 4G option. Similar to the EVO LTE, no LTE in the immediate future for most.
I bring this up because it's common knowledge that Sprint's 3G is absolutely garbage, when it fact it could be Sprint purposely throttling data. I wonder what would happen if they just opened up the pipes even to everyone.
Once NetworkVision upgrades are done all this will be moot....not worth fretting over now...
Comparing WiMax to the 3G speed is a pointless task as well, imho....different animals all together; and no phone is going to be faster than the another on 3G really in areas where the problem is capacity ridden issues...In areas its not, then you can see benefit/differences due to different antennae tech and radios used...
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Once NetworkVision upgrades are done all this will be moot....not worth fretting over now...
Comparing WiMax to the 3G speed is a pointless task as well, imho....different animals all together; and no phone is going to be faster than the another on 3G really in areas where the problem is capacity ridden issues...In areas its not, then you can see benefit/differences due to different antennae tech and radios used...
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Please don't dismiss this as not important, having usable 3g speeds until network vision comes out is important to many of us.We want this phone to succeed in all ways.
I haven't been able to test my speeds yet as it is taking forever (more than an hour so far) to download 6 apps over 3g. I screwed up and didn't test my OG Evo before I deactivated it, but it sure seems like the new lte Evo is a lot slower so far. I will update after it finally gets the speed test app downloaded.
Is the PRL different on all your evos??
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Is the PRL different on all your evos??
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This is a screenshot from over on themikmik, which is definitely a different PRL than I have on my OG
I wonder if that's the reason. Didb try to update your prl on the og?
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huskers15 said:
I wonder if that's the reason. Didb try to update your prl on the og?
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Latest update I have is 61087 (corporate account). Everyone else has 60687.
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Please don't dismiss this as not important, having usable 3g speeds until network vision comes out is important to many of us.We want this phone to succeed in all ways.
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Read what I wrote again...don't think u grasped what i was saying really....
Wasn't dismissing the importance of 3G speed as much as caring about the difference b/w what you got on your 3D and what you get now with the LTE...like I said no matter what phone you have the capacity troubled areas will continue to get slow speeds until NetworkVision is deployed in your area...Also its highly unlikely you will see a phone released that will get half the speed of its predecessor over 3G so there should be no worry really...b/c 90% any slow speed issues experienced here will be network related issues and not the phone...
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Latest update I have is 61087 (corporate account). Everyone else has 60687.
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Its possible that prl is for lte
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I'm getting around 300kb/s up and down around San Jose and the Oakland airport. I normally would get about 3000 with tmobile...
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Blue_Alien said:
I'm getting around 300kb/s up and down around San Jose and the Oakland airport. I normally would get about 3000 with tmobile...
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Thats with a totally different network
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That's the same prl for the galaxy nexus....it's a lte prl ....
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Does setting network mode to Cdma only turn off the Lte? I think it would but I read online that Lte stays on all the time
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It not only tells the device NOT to turn on LTE but also tells the devicenot to LOOK for an LTE signal which in my experience enhanced battery life... Well may not have enhanced battery life to be honest because I was only on charge number 2 when I turned it off LoL but will actually turn it back on and see how battery fates then to compare and do my best to keep using the phone as much as I have been to get proper results for the comparison.
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Thanks. I feel like this would be like leaving GPS or Wimax on. Wasting the battery.
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Natodu said:
Thanks. I feel like this would be like leaving GPS or Wimax on. Wasting the battery.
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Except leaving GPS on doesn't waste battery. It's only using power when it's actually active. This was a big question people asked 2 years ago when the OG Evo came out.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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But with all the apps that try to pull your location I always thought it was hurting my battery on the OG. I am a battery whore so it could have been in my head.
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Yes, it is really only active when instructed to do so by certain apps at certain times like posting on FaceBook, using Nav, etc etc.
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I am actually now having an issue with location. Basically phone can't find me
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